Great news! – Microsoft has now officially announced support for Exchange Server 2007 in virtual environments, such as Microsoft Hyper-V or any third-party hypervisor that has been validated under the Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program.
| What’s supported: |
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running on Windows Server 2008 |
| Supported Exchange roles: |
All except Unified Messaging |
| What Hypervisor: |
Microsoft Hyper-V, or any hypervisor validated by MSVVP |
More about this from the Exchange Team or Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments.
Great news! – It’s now confirmed Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 have been Released to Manufactoring (RTM) today and is available as download and from July 8th it will be available through Windows Update.
An official Press Release from Microsoft.
At TechEd Microsoft announced that they were way ahead of schedule and expected a release within a few week and not in August 2008 as previously scheduled.
Download from here or from the Hyper-V website.
More information:
Hyper-V RC1 was released a few days ago. Hyper-V RC1 is an optional upgrade for customers and partners, providing the latest code for those who want to continue testing the technology within their infrastructure environment.
Update for Windows Vista (KB949587)
Install this update to enable remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC1 role.
Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB950049)
The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model.
Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB949587)
Install this update to enable remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC1 role.
Read more from the Windows Virtualization Team Blog.
Microsoft is really eating their own dogfood. They just annonced the complete migration of both MSDN and TechNet, two of the most popular web sites in the world, are now running on virtual machines (Microsoft Hyper-V).
Microsoft kept the back-end database on physical boxes, but moved 100% of its IIS7 frond-ends on Hyper-V RC0 VMs with 4 virtual CPUs and 10GB RAM.
The virtualization hosts (no mention of the brand obviously) are powered by 2 Intel quad-core CPUs and 32GB RAM (2GB are reserved for the Windows Server 2008 parent partition).
Read more about this interesting case on virtualization.info.
Microsoft has released the Hyper-V Management Tool for Windows Vista. This update enables remote management of a Windows Server 2008 computer running the Hyper-V RC0 role from Windows Vista.
Download:
